Arvind Kejriwal also defended hiring Ram Jethmalani's appointment and the Rs 3 crore bill.
Kejriwal’s AAP might have bombed at the Rajouri Garden bypolls but he remains as feisty as ever. Attacking the EC again over EVMs he claimed the Commission was pulling out all stops to help the BJP win and that as an IITian he could tell us ten different wayst o hack an EVM. He was quoted saying by NDTV: “I am an engineer from IIT... I can tell you 10 ways in which EVMs (Electronic Voting Machines) can be tampered.”
He also said that the people of Delhi are happy with his government, and that the bypoll result wasn’t a trailer and AAP would win the MCD elections. Asked about the Rs 3 crore bill to Ram Jethamlani, he said that he was fighting a case as the CM and the government has the ‘right’ to hire the best lawyer.
With the AAP's humiliating defeat in the Rajouri Garden bypoll, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia admitted that people were upset with the party over its legislator quitting to contest from Punjab. He said the party will pull up its socks in the upcoming MCD polls and try to convince the people of Rajouri Garden by showcasing the "good work" done by the Delhi government. The Rajouri Garden bypoll was necessitated after AAP MLA Jarnail Singh quit to contest from Lambi in Punjab against the then Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. Jarnail came in third in the contest.
BJP-Akali Dal candidate Manjinder Singh Sirsa trounced his nearest rival and Congress' Meenakshi Chandela by over 14,500 votes. AAP's Harjeet Singh came in a distant third. "There was anger among people after Jarnail went to Punjab. We tried convincing them, but with the results we are realising that people were not convinced and remained upset.
"We will pull up our socks in the upcoming polls and also try to convince the people of Rajouri Garden. Whatever work was done by Jarnail we will carry it forward," Sisodia said.
When asked about the possible impact of the Rajouri Garden bypoll on the MCD election, Sisodia said the BJP too lost several bypolls after its resounding victory in 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
"We will show it in the MCD poll. After winning 282 seats in Lok Sabha, the BJP lost many bypolls. We will win the MCD polls by telling people about the work done by us and we will win it handsomely," he said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday slammed the opposition parties for doubting the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and said that because few political parties are losing we cannot dub the entire electoral process as wrong and the equipment as bad. BJP spokesperson Nalin Kohli said that raising questions against the democratic process without enough evidence is not in the greater interest of the democracy.
‘Beneficiaries of the democratic process, those who participate in the democratic process they need to bear in mind that raising allegations against the process or the conduct of elections is not in the larger interest of the democracy without substance,’ Kohli told ANI.
‘With regard to EVMs they are far improvement over the paper ballots and the kind of days of rigging which we have seen. Just because of set of political parties are losing and people do not wish to vote for them does not mean the process is incorrect or the equipment being used for the conduct of elections is bad,’ he added. The Election Commission has issued a challenge to all political parties to prove that the EVMs can be tampered with.
This came after the Congress, Left, AAP and others claimed that the EVMs were tampered with to favour the BJP.
With inputs from agencies
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